Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
And this is why I’m not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you’re one to believe that the Democrats are the “good guys”, they’re the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.
409-2?! And the only nay votes were republicans?! What the actual fuck?!
And this is why I’m not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you’re one to believe that the Democrats are the “good guys”, they’re the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.